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Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments of Progressivism

Elizabeth Warren takes the stage for her acceptance after beating incumbent U.S. Senator Scott Brown at the Copley Fairmont November 6, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts. The campaign was highly contested and closely watched and went down to the wire.

Watch Eliza­beth War­ren give a speech to her fold, and you real­ize she’s one of the rare Demo­crats who can ex­cite her base in the same way Ted Cruz or Dr. Ben Car­son can ex­cite their own. As Politico‘s Katie Glueck wrote on Fri­day, lib­er­als’ minds may be with Hil­lary Clin­ton, but their hearts lie with War­ren.

Speak­ing on Fri­day at Net­roots Na­tion, a con­ven­tion for lib­er­al blog­gers and act­iv­ists, War­ren got the crowd more fired up than Vice Pres­id­ent Joe Biden was able to do the day be­fore. (To be fair, the crowd was in a sol­emn mood at the time in re­ac­tion to the news of the Malay­si­an pas­sen­ger plane crash). In her speech, War­ren out­lined more clearly than oth­er Demo­crats the so­cial is­sues that gal­van­ize pro­gress­ives. Her per­form­ance was re­min­is­cent of a cer­tain oth­er young sen­at­or in 2008.

“What are our val­ues?” War­ren asked the audi­ence, some of whom held up “Run Liz Run” signs. “What does it mean to be a pro­gress­ive?”